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	A Brief History of Tweed Courthouse
		Tweed is a designated New York City landmark and sections of the interior are designated interior landmarks as well.
		Tweed Courthouse is the legacy of Tammany Hall boss William M. Tweed, who used the construction of the building to embezzle large sums from the budget.
		Boss Tweed was tried in 1873 in an unfinished courtroom in this building and was convicted and jailed.
	www.nyc.gov /html/om/html/tweed_courthouse.html (407 words)

	Boss Tweed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tweed and his cronies became known as the "Tweed Ring." Tweed's machine gained numerous offices in New York City, and even to the state legislature and judges' seats, often through illegal means.
		Tweed himself was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852, the New York City Board of Advisors in 1856, and the New York State Senate in 1867.
		In April 1870, Tweed secured the passage of a city charter putting the control of the city into the hands of the mayor, the comptroller, and the commissioners of parks and public works.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Boss_Tweed (570 words)

	Boss Tweed
		He became an alderman in 1851 and he built his power through the election and appointment of his friends, which became known as the "Tweed Ring," to numerous offices in New York City, and even to the state legislature and judges' seats, often through illegal means.
		Tweed himself was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1852, the New York City Board of Advisors in 1856, and the New York State Senate in 1867.
		He was identified, purportedly recognized by one of Nast's cartoons, and extradited to New York in 1876, where he died in debtor's prison two years later.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Boss_Tweed.html (520 words)

	Boss Tweed Escaped From Prison
		On December 4, 1875, William Marcy Tweed, better known as Boss Tweed, escaped from prison and fled to Europe.
		By 1870, he was so powerful and had so many of his friends (known as his "Tweed Ring" cronies) in political positions that he was able to pass a new city charter allowing him and his friends to control the city treasury.
		Between 1865 and 1871, Tweed and his associates stole between $30 million and $200 million from the city.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/boss_1 (145 words)

	William Tweed
		William Tweed was born in New York in 1823.
		Tweed was arrested and found guilty of corruption, was sentenced to 12 years in jail.
		Tweed, who had made an estimated $200,000,000 from his activities, was able to use his wealth to escape from prison.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAtweed.htm (474 words)

	Agile Writer - Biography and History - Boss Tweed
		William Tweed was born in 1823, on the Lower East Side of New York City; a neighborhood that was established by immigrants and was the traditional starting point for all new arrivals.
		Tweed was found guilty of failing to audit claims against the city and convicted on charges of forgery and larceny.
		Tweed fled to Cuba and then to Spain, where he was working as a common seaman on a ship when he was recognized from his picture in a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested by local police.
	www.agilewriter.com /Biography/BossTweed.htm (1245 words)

	Tweed, William Marcy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Attempts within Tammany to oust the Tweed Ring failed, and in 1870 Tweed forced through the state legislature a charter that greatly increased the powers of the ring.
		The immediate cause of Tweed’s downfall was the publication in the New York Times of evidence of wholesale graft revealed by M. O’Rourke, a new county bookkeeper.
		Largely through the efforts of Samuel J. Tilden, Tweed was tried for felony, but the jury could not reach a verdict.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tw/Tweed-Wi.html (450 words)

	Lower Manhattan : News \| Landmark Tweed Courthouse Has a Checkered History
		In April 1870, Tweed facilitated the passage of a city charter that transferred control of the city to the mayor, comptroller, and commissioners of parks and public works --- and thus conveniently into the hands of the Tweed Ring.
		Although the total amount of money stolen by Tweed and his ring over the years was never determined, it is estimated that approximately $13 million was appropriated by the board of supervisors for the construction of the courthouse between 1862 -- when Tweed became president --and the 1870s.
		Tried in an unfinished basement room of the courthouse that today bears his name, Tweed was ultimately convicted for failure to audit claims against the city and sentenced to 12 years in prison -- a decision that was later reduced to one year by a higher court.
	www.lowermanhattan.info /news/landmark_tweed_courthouse_has_65546.asp (1442 words)

	Gotham Gazette: Boss Tweed
		Tweed inherited a culture of graft endemic to New York City for generations and pushed it to its logical extreme, forcing the reformers to crack down.
		Under Tweed's system if you were a contactor who supplied anything from stationery to services to plastering to painting to construction to the city, you had to submit your bills to the board of supervisors.
		Basically Tweed had an arrangement with a few allies that when bills went through him you had to add 15 percent; that was the gratuity to the politicians for approving it.
	www.gothamgazette.com /print/1467 (5091 words)

	Thomas Nast
		William Magear Tweed (1823-1878), more commonly known in American history as “Boss Tweed,” was an object of scathing criticism by Thomas Nast.
		Tweed was a New York City politician who led a group of corrupt politicians who gained power in the Democratic party in 1863, when Tweed was elected Grand Sachem”; of Tammany Hall.
		The Tweed Ring was successful in part because it was popular among many voters, especially the Irish immigrants who had flooded the city in search of a better livelihood.
	cartoons.osu.edu /nast/tweed.htm (500 words)

	Tammany’s Boss by Sam Munson - Policy Review 132 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is here that Tweed, chief of Tammany and later state senator and commissioner of public works, began in earnest his true career as an eminence grise: dispenser of huge largesse and electoral favors, receiver of equally huge kickbacks from city contractors, plunderer of tax and treasury monies.
		Tweed’s astonishingly quick ascent within Tammany to the position of chairman of its general committee flashes before the reader’s eyes in three tantalizing paragraphs, and we are left hungering for stories of the backroom deals and political infighting that Tweed must have prosecuted in order to attain the chair.
		His father was a furniture maker; given Tweed’s proclivities and the unabashedly capitalist taste of the times, it is not hard to imagine Tweed presiding over a booming expansion of his father’s business, and ending his life as a celebrated, harmless merchant prince, an endower of philanthropic institutions, another Peter Cooper.
	www.policyreview.org /aug05/munson.html (1789 words)

	Boss Tweed
		Tweed also reaped a fortune in what one Tammany philosopher later called ''honest graft.'' He was welcomed to the boards of many corporations, handsomely rewarded, and confirmed in his cynicism.
		Central to the style was Tweed's knowledge of the world as it actually was, not as it should be (in that sense he was a philosophical descendant of Niccolo Machiavelli).
		Tweed became a man who could count and calculate, both the number of Irish immigrants arriving in flight from the 1840's famine -- all potential voters -- or the possible markups of a street paving contract.
	www.petehamill.com /bosstweed.html (2021 words)

	Boss Tweed, 50, 's, 60's & 70's Rock Bands of the Pacific Northwest
		The Boss Tweed didn't get that many gigs, really; there were other bands more popular (and probably more skilled) in southwest Washington than we were.
		The Boss Tweed resurfaced first in the Raymond Swimming Pool concerts during the summer of '68 and as Whistlin' Rufus, with Rob Bender replacing Dan Stritmatter on drums, during the Summer of 1970.
		It will be a sad reunion since the bass player for the Boss Tweed, Joe Gurr, died yesterday (July 28, 2003) of a heart attack in Wisconsin at the age of 52.
	pnwbands.com /bosstweed.html (783 words)

	FLEMINGTON AUTHOR PENS STORY OF BOSS TWEED'S DINOSAURS - Atlantic Highlands Herald - New Jersey
		Tweed didn't like the subway because he believed it would cut into the profits he was skimming from the ground-level trolleys and Hansom cabs.
		Tweed simply couldn't see any way to make a buck off of it." He ordered a group of thugs to break into Hawkin's studio and destroy the huge plaster and metal dinosaurs that the English artist and his staff were building.
		Tweed himself never appears, but other well-known New Yorkers do, such as Phineas T. Barnum, and the artist Thomas Nast, who invented the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
	www.ahherald.com /news/2002/0509/boss_tweed_dino.htm (1207 words)

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		To the American imagination, the Tweed Ring, headed by William "Boss" Tweed, was the most notorious of all political machines in urban America.
		Although he was accused of defrauding the city of New York of upwards of $200 million, Tweed was convicted on only a misdemeanor charge—failing to audit claims against the city.
		Samuel J. Tilden, one of Tweed’s chief accusers, rode to the New York governorship and the Democratic Party presidential candidacy largely on the strength of his role in bringing down Tweed and Tammany Hall.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/2upa/Aus/BossTweedCourt_pf.asp (562 words)

	William M. Tweed
		William Marcy Tweed was one of the first and most notorious city bosses.
		Tweed started out as a volunteer fireman and eventually became head of the New York City political machine in 1863.
		By 1868 "Boss" Tweed's Tammany Hall organization controlled most of city and state government in New York, including thousands of patronage jobs and millions of dollars in contracts, fees, and government-controlled benefits.
	www.vw.vccs.edu /vwhansd/HIS122/Tweed.html (380 words)

	Today in History: December 4
		Convicted of forgery and larceny in 1873, Tweed was released in 1875.
		Meanwhile, Tilden's efforts to oust Tweed solidified his name as a reformer—a reputation that made him Governor of New York in 1874 and nearly put him in the White House in 1877.
		Boss Tweed, acting as a policeman, although wearing the uniform of a convict, holds two boys by the collar with one hand, and carries a billy club in the other.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec04.html (1951 words)

	Boss Tweed And Election Fraud - Boss Tweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tweed and his cronies subsequent interview about the fraud, stock fraud lawyer denver, Tweed's only reply was, "What.
		Known as Boss Tweed, was an American politician and political boss through the election and appointment of his friends.
		Tweed and his cronies subsequent interview about the fraud, internet lottery fraud, Tweed's only reply was, "What.
	www.fraudwatchernetwork.com /news/boss-tweed-and-election-fraud.html (734 words)

	Kenneth Ackerman - Boss Tweed
		Tweed and friends still clinging to the rock of safety - the city treasury.
		Few characters in American history are more iconic than Boss Tweed, and, as a biographer, it was a rare challenge trying to bring his career to life, a tale of his pride, fall, and redemption.
		During his reign, Tweed wielded enormous influence over New York politics and Federal elections, bribing the state legislature, fixing elections, skimming money from city contractors, and diverting public funds on a massive scale—before his disregard for the law led to his imprisonment.
	www.kennethackerman.com /bosstweed.html (275 words)

	Amazon.com: Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York: Books: Kenneth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TWEED WAS DYING that morning, locked inside New York City's Ludlow Street Jail at Grand Street on the Lower East Side.
		Tweed was the cream of the crop in his world, and he had his hands in everything (a thief way before his time).
		Tweed is presented with all of his warts, but is still a sympathetic character, in that for all the graft and fraud he created; he never forgot the 'little people', and what he had promised them.
	www.amazon.com /Boss-Tweed-Corrupt-Conceived-Modern/dp/0786714352 (1887 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Boss Tweed; by Kenneth D. Ackerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York
		From strandbooks.com Acclaimed historian Kenneth D. Ackerman's captivating "Boss Tweed" is the first biography in almost thirty years of the legendary figure who bribed the state legislature, fixed elections, skimmed money from city contractors, and diverted public funds on a massive scale.
		While telling the story of Tweed's rise and ignominious fall, Ackerman provides a portrait of a vibrant city of both rich and poor, and delivers character and historical commentary in a way that is as interesting and readable as were the Thomas Nast political cartoons that brought Tweed down.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0786714352 (375 words)

	Boss Tweed
		The immediate cause of Tweed's downfall was the publication in the New York Times of evidence of wholesale graft revealed by that snit M. O'Rourke, a snivelling little county bookkeeper.
		Largely through the efforts of that all-time horse's arse Samuel J. Tilden, Tweed was tried for felony, but the jury could not reach a verdict (ha, ha!).
		In a second trial he was convicted and given a 12-year prison sentence; this, however, was reduced, of course, by a higher court, and he served one year.
	www.haplessdilettante.com /tweed.html (411 words)

	Boss Tweed - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Boss Tweed - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tweed, William Marcy (1823-1878), also known as Boss Tweed, American politician.
		He was born in New York City and trained as a bookkeeper.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Boss_Tweed.html (114 words)

	Gripping 'Boss' explores master of graft
		Tweed grew up on the Lower East Side in the 1820s and as a popular and physically impressive young fireman caught the eye of Tammany Hall, the powerful New York Democratic organization.
		As Tammany "sachem" and the city's public-works commissioner, Tweed "had a finger in every pie," writes Ackerman, including the Brooklyn Bridge, which he claimed that he had helped build by handing out bribes to win approval for a bond.
		As Times executives began discussing a crusade against Tweed, a young bookkeeper in the city comptroller's office brought them evidence of fraud in contracts for repairs and rentals of city armories.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/ae/articles/0410boss-tweed10.html (491 words)

	Boss Tweed - MSN Encarta
		He formed the so-called Tweed Ring within the Tammany Society, along with New York City Mayor Abraham Oakey Hall, City Chamberlain Peter Barr Sweeny, City Comptroller Richard B. Connolly, and others.
		The Tweed Ring was brought down in 1871, when the New York Times newspaper published an exposé on the graft practices of the ring, based on data provided by a county bookkeeper.
		In 1874 Tweed was convicted of official embezzlement and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761557157 (284 words)

	Riots/ Tammany Heals / Boss Tweed
		While political corruption had been a problem in the Democratic party since its founding, the activities of Tweed and his associates went far beyond the petty graft of his predecessors, and soon could not be ignored.
		The Tweed scandals were a great blow to Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party, and more generally to the NYC.
		Within three years after the disastrous Tweed scandals, a reformed Tammany Hall was back in power under the leadership of "Honest" John Kelly." Kelly patched together a governing coalition of Tammany leaders not touched by the scandals and anti-Tammany leaders such as Samuel J. Tilden, August Belmont and Governor Horatio Seymour.
	www.midtownmedia.com /ndc/Civilwar.html (560 words)

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